Metallic railway-tie.



No. 853,176. PATENTED MAY 7-, 1907. J.KAYLOR.

METALLIC RAILWAY TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED 0012 5. 1996.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KAYLOR, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JACOB F. KAYLOR, OFTAZEWELL, ILLINOIS.

METALLIC RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iratenteol ill/Lay 7, 1907.

To (LZZ whom it flea/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KAYLOR, a resident of the city of Decatur,county of Macon, and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new anduseful Improvements in Metallic Railway-Ties, of which the following'isa specification.

One object of this invention is to provide means for facilitating thetamping of ballast or earth under the rail-bearing parts of the ties;another object is to provide for an automatic supply of earth or ballastunder the ends of the ties and another object is to provide simple andsecure means for securing the meeting ends of rails together and to theties.

The invention is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described andit is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a plan ofa piece of track constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 isa side elevation of one of my improved ties; and Fig. 3 is a section online :20 in Fig. 1.

The ties at the conjunction of the rails vary somewhat from theintermediate ties, as will hereinafter appear, but the facilities fortamping the earth or ballast under the ties and for supplying the endsof the ties with a surplus of filling material to be automaticallyabsorbed, are the same in both cases.

Each tie comprises a pair of side extensions 1, rail-sustaining crossplate 2, an inter mediate horizontal bearing plate 3 having its endsbent obliquely downward, and end walls 4 provided with downwardextensions 5. The intermediate ties, or the ties used between theconjunction of 'a pair of rails,

are notched to receive the rails and are recessed to hold the cushionblocks 9, of wood or other jar-deadening material. The rails are securedto the intermediate ties by means of clips as 7 and bolts 8.

The ties at the conjunctions of the rails are widened beneath the rails,a pair of fish plates 12 are used to secure the rails together, and lugs13, formed on the fish plates, are secured to the ties by means of bolts14. The. fish plates are attached to the rails in the utual manner bymeans of bolts 15.

The rail-sustaining plates 2 are above and separate from the downturnedends of the intermediate plate 3, with the result that oblique tampingslots 10 lead from the upper surface of the ties to beneath therail-sustaining plates. The end plates 4 are separate from therail-sustaining plates and incline inward, the extensions 5 projectbelow the lower surface of the ties, and the spaces between the endplates and the rail-sustaining plates act as tamping slots and asreceptacles for earth or ballast; see the reference numeral 11.

As the ties settle, earth or ballast may be tamped under therail-sustaining plates 2, through the openings 10 and 11 and theopenings may be left filled with ballast or earth to supply the shortagecreated by settling.

The extensions 5 extend downward to wall the incline in the track gradethat leads away from the rails, and to hold the ballast from sidewisedrift, and when the pockets 11 are supplied with earth or ballast thegrade at the ends of the ties will be maintained intact for aconsiderabie time.

The lugs on the fish plates provide simple and effective means formaking secure connections between the ties and the conjoined ends of therails.

I do not wish to be restricted to the precise form and proportion hereinshown and described, and what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

1. 'A metallic railway tie having tamping slots leading obliquely fromthe upper sur face of the tie to beneath the rail-sustaining partsthereof.

2. A metallic railway tie comprising up right side plates,rail-sustaining cross plates connecting the side plates, and ahorizontal bearing plate having both its ends near said sustainingplates bent obliquely downward.

3. A metallic railway tie having oblique slots leading from its uppersurface, inside the rails, to below the rail-sustaining parts of thetie, and also having bottomless pockets outside the rails.

4. A metallic railway tie composed of side bars 1, intermediate plate 3,rail-sustaining plates 2 and end plates 4 inclined inward and having thedownward extensions 5 the railsustaining plates being separated from theother plates to form the slot 10 and the combined slot and pocket 11.

5. A metallic railway tie comprising upright side plates,rail-sustaining cross plates connecting the side plates, a horizontalbearing plate having both its ends near said sustaining plates bentobliquely downward, and end Walls connecting said side plates at pointsremote from the sustaining plates, and inclining inward toward them.

JOHN KAYLOR.

Witnesses:

EARLE B. Donn, J. M. DoDD.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the assignee in'LettersPatent No. 853,176, granted May 7, 1907, upon the application of JohnKaylor, of Decatur, Illinois, for an improvement in MetallicRailway-Ties, was erroneously written and printed Tazewell, Illinois,whereas said residence should have been written and printed Pekin,Illinois; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with thiscorrection therein that the same may conform to the record of the easein the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this 2d day of July, A. 1)., 1907.

' o. o. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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